This… Is BGNN
Things you might want to know, for Apr 26, 2023:
- ‘The Witcher’ season 3 trailer shows Henry Cavill’s last stint as Geralt — I’ll be tapping out, post-Cavill, but perhaps that foreknowledge will help me enjoy this final run a little bit more.
- Harry Belafonte, Legendary Entertainer and Activist, Dead at 96
- Inside U2’s Boundary-Breaking Immersive Vegas Show
- 1975 film captures the heartbreaking transition from countercultural free spirits to corporate office drones
- A supermodel turned herself into one of Epic’s hyperrealistic MetaHumans
- Picard season 3 is great for me, less great for Star Trek — I relate a lot to this piece about Picard… as someone who watched every ep of TOS but only dabbled in TNG, DS9, and Voyager, I know more about the Star Trek universe than a normal person should, but not enough to call myself A Fan. So this farewell season hit all the notes I expected, with minimal confusion… meaning that hardcore fans probably hated it.
- Melatonin in sleep-aid gummies can be off by up to 350%, study finds
- More of the internet could disappear as load-bearing image host Imgur announces deletion of old content and NSFW images — The current socioeconomic climate is the toughest for discussing or selling sex online that I’ve seen since 2007, and it feels much worse because of how far we’ve come in the last decade.
- This Halo 1 Mario Kart mod is as ludicrous as it is impressive
- This murder mystery Stardew-like lets you accidently romance the killer
- Bam Margera Wanted By Police After Beating Up Brother, Threatening to Kill Father — It’s just possible that we all indulged Bam a little too long… who knew Steve-O would pull out of his death spiral and Bam wouldn’t?
- Epic Games boss defends Twitter, calls #BlocktheBlue supporters ‘losers and goons’ — I don’t say this often enough, so: fuck Tim Sweeney.
- Richard Lewis Reveals Parkinson’s Diagnosis, But Says ‘Everything Is Cool’ — I’m hoping that this late-in-life diagnosis means he’s not going to find it too debilitating.
- Blink-182’s Travis Barker is hawking enemas
- And now, in memory of Tucker Carlson, 2009–2023 (video)